Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1998, 3:21 PM CDT for Jim Wells County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1998, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1998, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jim Wells County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 3:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Orange Grove, TX | |
| Jun 15, 4:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Alice, TX | Thunderstorm wind destroyed two portable buildings and downed power poles. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 74 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 701 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -484 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1314 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 58 min |
| Jun 15, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 62 min |
| Jun 15, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Nueces | 79 min |
| Jun 15, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad | 76 min |
| Jun 15, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 80 min |
| Jun 15, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Goliad | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Victoria | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells | 64 min |
| Jun 15, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Nueces | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Nueces | 70 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.